Method and apparatus for use of thermally switching proteins in sensing and detecting devices
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Preparation of a Sensing Device in Accordance with the Invention
[0060] A prototype of a device in accordance with the present invention, as shown in FIG. 7, was prepared as follows: Poly(vinyl alcohol) (3.750 g, 98-99% hydrolyzed, average MW=85,000, Aldrich) is dissolved in distilled water (25 ml) through heating to 96° C. and stirring for three hours. In a separate flask, 0.563 g of carbon black (Vulcan XC-72, Cabot) is suspended in water (15 ml) and surfactant (21.0 μl, Triton X-100) by placing the vial in a water bath sonicator for 10 minutes and then added to the polymer solution and enough heat is supplied to evaporate the total water content to 25 ml. Glycerol (1.419 g Aldrich) is then added to the polymer matrix and stirred an additional 15 minutes. The polymer matrix is removed from the heat source and allowed to cool to room temperature.
[0061] The polymer matrix (0.666 g) is weighed into a vial and a thermosensitive protein solution (335 μl of 3 μg / μl TIpA in water) is ad...
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Isolation and Testing of the TIpA Protein
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[0064] Coiled-coil proteins are assemblies of two to four α-helices that pack together in a parallel or anti-parallel fashion. Coiled-coil structure can confer a variety of functional capabilities, which include enabling proteins such as myosin to function in the contractile apparatus of muscle and non-muscle cells. The TIpA protein encoded by the virulence plasmid of Salmonella is an α-helical protein that forms an elongated coiled-coil homodimer. A number of studies have clearly established the role of TIpA as a temperature-sensing gene regulator, however the potential use of a TIpA in a thermo-sensor application outside of the organism has not previously been done. In the following example, we demonstrate that TIpA has several characteristics that are common with α-helical coiled-coils and its thermal folding and unfolding is reversible and rapid. TIpA is extremely sensitive to changes in temperature. We also have compared the ...
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Preparation of a Holographic Nanopattern of Biocatalytically Formed Silica for Use in the Present Invention
[0102] In accordance with the present invention, a structure for use with the thermally sensing proteins of the present invention was developed from another form of nature: diatoms.
[0103] Diatoms are of interest to the materials research community because of their ability to create highly complex and intricate silica structures under physiological conditions: what these single-cell organisms accomplish so elegantly in nature requires extreme laboratory conditions to duplicate1,2-this is true for even the simplest of structures. Following the identification of polycationic peptides from the diatom Cylindrotheca fusiformis, simple silica nanospheres can now be synthesized in vitro from silanes at nearly neutral pH and at ambient temperatures and pressures3,4. Here we describe a method for creating a hybrid organic / inorganic ordered nanostructure of silica spheres through the in...
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